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Troubleshooting troublesome nested families and parameters

Troubleshooting troublesome nested families and parameters

From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

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Troubleshooting troublesome nested families and parameters

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- [Instructor] I have an interesting little problem that I ran into recently with a client working on some family content, where there was a series of nested families that were creating a larger, more complex assembly. And there were of course parameters driving the nested families. And there were some formulas involved as well. And ultimately we ended up creating conflict between those relationships, and it was generating error messages that were a little cryptic and took some time to decipher. So I thought I would recreate the problem here and show you how ultimately we were able to overcome it. So this is not the client's family. This is a simplified version of it, but their family was a series of metal struts that was a structural assembly that would hang on a wall. And then it had struts going in both the horizontal and vertical directions. And there was parameters controlling the quantities and the spacings and the…

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